hologram
/ˈhɒləɡɹæm/
"hologram" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hologram” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,091
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hologram · hologram · English
hologram · rank #25,091 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,091
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hijack
Nearest frequency peer: hijack (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “hologram”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Hereford
Hereford
74,914 corpus weight
- hickey
hickey
74,913 corpus weight
- hijack
hijack
74,912 corpus weight
- hologram
hologram
74,910 corpus weight
- Horatio
Horatio
74,908 corpus weight
- humankind
humankind
74,907 corpus weight
What this shows “hologram” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hologram |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hologram”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hologram (IPA /ˈhɒləɡɹæm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,091 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hologram, with forms such as "hhologram", "hloogram", and "holgoram". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written or drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the Nobel prize winner in physics in 1971 for his work in holography. The correct English form is hologram, spelled H-O-L-O-G-R-A-M.
Definition
- 1A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hologram appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He turned his head and stared out to sea, longing for the hologram logo of Fuji Electric, for the drone of a helicopter, anything at all.
Etymology
From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written or drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the Nobel prize winner in physics in 1971 for his work in holography.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhologram
- hloogram
- holgoram
- hollogram
- hologarm
- hologgram
- hologramm
- hologrma
- hologrram
- holorgam
- hoolgram
- ohlogram
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hologram - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hologram", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).